Published November 15, 1989 | Version v1
Journal article

Statistical fluctuations as the origin of nontopological solitons

  • 1. Astronomy and Astrophysics Center, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637
  • 2. NASA/Fermilab Astrophysics Center, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, Illinois 60510 (USA)

Description

Nontopological solitons can be formed during a phase transition in the early Universe as long as some net charge can be trapped in regions of a false vacuum. It has been previously suggested that a particle-antiparticle asymmetry would provide a source for such trapped charge. We point out that, for the model and parameters considered, statistical fluctuations provide a much larger concentration of charge and are, therefore, the dominant source of charge fluctuations in solitogenesis

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review, D
Journal Volume
40
Journal Issue
10
Series
Phys. Rev., D.
Journal Page Range
3529-3532
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDA